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From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C compiler validation
Date: 11 Mar 1996 13:25:55 -0800
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <4i25p3INNqjd@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
References: <4h1e1n$ld5@due.unit.no> <4hsps6$l11@jukebox.plug-in.com.br>
NNTP-Posting-Host: keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca
In article <4hsps6$l11@jukebox.plug-in.com.br>,
Gustavo Augusto Coelho <coelho@plug-in.com.br> wrote:
>gautemyk@idt.unit.no (Gaute Myklebust) wrote:
>
>>I want to verify if a C compiler confirms to the ANSI standard. Does
>>anyone know of test suites for this purpose ?
>
>If a understand correct you want to know if your compiler is a ANSI
>standard or not ?
>If i am correct you can find out this looking at the compiler's
>manual.Simple isn't it :)
That's very funny, but what if you are a compiler developer who is writing the
compiler _and_ the manual? Does your compiler becomes ANSI just because you
write so inside the documentation?
How do you know the compiler is in fact ANSI unless you can test it? The
documentation could be lying, or simply inaccurate.
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